What 8-0 Teams Have Done (16 Game Schedule)

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(11-05-2015, 04:16 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: The Bengals have a golden opportunity to reach the 8-0 mark tonight against the Brownies. It got me to wondering how other 8-0 starts have fared in a 16 game season. Here's what I found...

Since the league moved to a 16 game schedule in '78, 15 teams have started the season 8-0.
Of those 15, only 2 ('o6 Colts, '13 Chiefs) finished with fewer than 13 wins.
9 of the 15 reached the Super Bowl and 2 others made it to their conference championship game.
6 of the 9 that made the SB...won it.
Going 8-0 has meant a SB appearance 60% of the time, and a SB Title 40% of the time.

That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with this season, or this team...and they still have to go out and win the game tonight to become 8-0. However, if they win tonight...it is fun to look at previous history and imagine how this season could play out.

Who Dey!!!

It would be awesome to go 8-0, and the Bengals I believe can even get to 9-0 and depending on how they play at Arizona, can likely be 13-3 or 14-2.  WTS, I'm still leery of what games against NE and/or Denver would be like.  IMO, I think they need some luck to go their way in order to beat one or both of those teams.  NE's offense looks like it matches up well with the Bengals D and their D might just do enough to get them a win in a shootout.  The Broncos D looks scary with great players on every level, and may ask their offense to only score 13-16 to possibly beat the Bengals.  I think the Bengals have a much better shot of beating the Broncos than the Patriots as things currently stand, but it depends heavily on where the game is.  


But there are 9 more weeks to go, so anything could happen.  Keep the faith!